Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter

Two Montego Bay men were arrested yesterday, bringing to seven, the number of persons arrested so far in connection with the multimillion-dollar lottery scam operating out of Montego Bay, St. James.

They are Kenley Stevens, former chairman of theWest Central St. James People's National Party Youth Organisation in Region Six and Montego Bay businessman Stephen Allen. They are both charged with conspiracy to defraud.

The men are being represented by attorney-at-law Linton Walters and will appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday.

Three charged

Yesterday, three persons who were charged this week in connection with the multimillion-dollar lottery scam appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court .

Resident Magistrate Frank Williams remanded them to return to court on March 2.

Appearing before the court were 29-year-old singer and musician Jomo Bernard also called "Brilliant", 31-year-old Cleopatra Bent and 22-year-old Shannon Ricketts, all of Bogue Hill Village, Montego Bay.

Defence lawyer Hugh Thompson, who is representing Bernard, made a bail application but the Crown opposed bail on the grounds that Bernard would interfere with the investigation and also that he was a flight risk.

The others who are also charged in the lottery scam are Lenroy Campbell, also called 'Sufferer', of Bogue Hill Village, Montego Bay, who is charged with conspiracy to defraud, and 21-year-old Sherika Headley, of Montego Bay, who was charged last week with unlawful possession after $1 million was allegedly recovered from her bedroom.